Sharing Stories – The Good, the Bad, and the Way Forward After Career Breaks – Hosted by WIB

Career breaks happen, from redundancy to maternity leave and any number of reasons in between. Perhaps you are returning from a recent career break and looking for advice or considering a sabbatical but are worried it will damage your career.

Our webinar panel is a group of women who have seen it all! Sharing personal experiences from their career journeys and with expert advice from iRelaunch, which specializes in supporting women returning to the workforce, this will be an unmissable opportunity to ask everything you ever wanted to know about this tricky topic.

Speaker Bios

Carol Fishman Cohen, CEO and Co-founder of iRelaunch

Carol Fishman Cohen is the CEO and Co-founder of iRelaunch, a full-service career reentry company focused on bringing professionals back into the workforce after an extended leave. iRelaunch works with employers to build and expand in-house return-to-work programs, produces the iRelaunch Return to Work Conferences, and leads a community of more than 100,000 relaunchers looking to return to work. Cohen, a relauncher herself, hosts the 3,2,1 iRelaunch podcast and writes regularly for Harvard Business Review. Her TED Talk, How to Get Back to Work After a Career Break, has nearly 3.7 million views.

Julie Faltum, Principal, Founder, and Owner of J F Consulting

Julie Faltum is an entrepreneurial, biopharmaceutical leader with deep and extensive experience in drug development across strategic, commercial, and other leadership roles at the last ~10 years at the VP level. Her passion is to make a difference by improving outcomes for people with serious and underserved conditions. The first half of Julie’s career was in Europe, working in global roles at Lundbeck and Novo Nordisk with increasing levels of responsibility and complexity. She continued her career in the U.S. in late 2011, assuming VP-level roles at Sanofi Global and the U.S. and at Mallinckrodt, leaving at the end of 2021. Julie is currently CEO and owner of J F Consulting LLC, a boutique strategy consulting company assisting primarily small pharma and clinical-stage biotech companies, and she acts as a scientific and business advisor for a European early-stage startup. Julie holds an MSc. in International Business from Copenhagen Business School and a CEMS Master as well as a post-graduate degree in pharmaceutical medicine and drug development from University of Basel in Switzerland.

Tanya Saker, Managing Director of The Executive Pharm, Moderator

Tanya is an experienced international recruitment specialist with 15 years of industry experience across the US, UK, and Australia. She specializes in senior-level hires, including international searches within unique industry talent pools and therapeutic areas. She is experienced in supporting start-ups in the US.